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...continuing U.S. confession controversy were not complicated enough, now the custom of joint trials has surfaced to compound the confusion. When a crime involves more than one defendant, most prosecutors aim to try them together; indeed, joint trials have occurred in many of the most famous U.S. criminal cases. But what if one defendant's confession implicates another? Is the use of such evidence so unfair to a man who has not confessed that it must be excluded...
...horseshoes are for good kick-an old Western custom adapted to Laos-and the fliers need it, for in the past few months the Ho Chi Minh trail has undergone a grim transformation...
...Carpano all send out packages or cases of their best vermouth. ENI, the government-owned petroleum combine, gives champagne in decorative holders; IRI, the industrial combine, sends cases of high-quality Maccarese wine. No one cleans up in Italy like the Italian police. Companies have taken up the custom, long observed by the populace, of giving them presents at Epiphany. One result is that on Jan. 6 it is often difficult to spot a traffic cop behind his mountain of gifts...
...brother, 19-year-old Carl, was still in high school when the group made good. Never particularly interested in school work, porky Carl dropped out of Hawthorne High and finished at the Hollywood Professional School. He is a most unlikely-looking surfer: he stuffs 50 extra pounds into the custom-made, pseudo white levis the group wears on stage. Carl spent most of the interview reclining on a bed in another room, drinking gin and tonic and absent-mindedly squeezing a girl who sat next to him. The television in his room blared and he watched, only casually interested...
...longer interested in the American Establishment, "an interlacing of relationships based on primordial status lines," Wolfe is more and more preoccupied with the world of custom cars, surf-boards and Harley 74s, peopled by "drop out forms," who have opted out of the mainstream of American social competition. These forms, rejecting "post-war bureaucracy which has made people interchangeable parts" in the commercial life of the nation, are inherently at odds with the "vertical" social structure they have left behind...